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Greater Lehigh Valley Auto Show is the region's premier showcase for the newest and hottest automobile technology from around the world. Attendees will be among the first to see the newest car makes and models from different manufactures featuring vehicles, including new models with a variety of new technologies, safety and environmental features. This 4 days auto show is being organized by Greater Lehigh Valley Auto Dealers Association. The venue of this event is Stabler Arena which is located in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, United States of America. The event will be held from 22 March 2018, Thursday to 25 March 2018, Sunday. Greater Lehigh Valley Auto Show 2018 will showcase a wide range of products and services related to automotive & auto parts sectors from the leading exhibitors such as cars, trucks, SUVs and vans. The approximate number of exhibitors that will exhibit at this event is over 30. The event will accommodate approximately 110,000 square feet of exhibit space. The frequency of Greater Lehigh Valley Auto Show is annual. This auto show has been running since 1998.
Address : Lehigh University, 124 Goodman Drive
City : Bethlehem, PA
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Phone : +1 610-758-3770
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A new report estimates 64 percent of Oregon's farmland, nearly 10.5 million acres, could change hands in the next 20 years.
Farmers 55 and older, the ubiquitous Baby Boomers, control that much of Oregon ag land, according to the report. As they leave the profession over the next two decades, they are likely to sell or transfer land to family members, neighbors or other current farmers and ranchers, or to business entities that are "primarily focused on investment, finance, property management, and development."
"How that land changes hands, who acquires it, and what they do with the land will impact Oregon for generations," the report concludes.
The report, "The Future of Oregon's Agricultural Land," said the average age of Oregon farmers and ranchers is now 60, up from 55 in 2002.
The report was produced by Oregon State University's Center for Small Farms & Community Food Systems in conjunction with Portland State University's Planning Oregon/Institute for Metropolitan Studies, and with Rogue Farm Corps, a non-profit striving to train the next generation of farmers, particularly those who weren't born to the farm or ranch.
Nellie McAdams, director of Rogue Farm Corps' farm preservation program and one of the report's co-authors, said bigger farms under fewer owners is a likely outcome of the coming ownership turnover. While farm size is not a problem by itself, she said, consolidation could result in fewer operators and less diversity in crop decisions and farming methods. With larger parcels, ownership becomes an even greater cost leap for beginning farmers, she said.
In addition to rising land costs, other hurdles for new farmers include the high cost of getting started, low income during a farm's "formative years," a lack of training opportunities for those without a farming background and "systemic barriers" that exclude "the growing pool of women and people of color who are eager to farm."
The potential impact of older farmers letting go of land isn't a new topic — the question of "Who are the next farmers?" is closely related — but the researchers took deeper dives than most into farmland transition.
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From 2010 through 2015, 25 to 40 percent of farmland sales in Washington, Benton, Clackamas, and Polk counties were to business entities. Ten to 15 percent of farm sales in those counties involved out-of-state buyers.
Meanwhile, land prices are increasing. The average estimated market value of an acre of farmland with buildings in 2012 was $1,882, compared to $1,534 in 2002, according to the Census of Agriculture. "Realtors and land seekers are seeing much higher land prices, especially for irrigated land near urban areas and along transportation corridors," the researchers concluded.
McAdams, of Rogue Farm Corps, said there's evidence to suggest farmers themselves aren't prepared for the turnover. Instead of being incorporated or formed as LLCs, 84 percent of Oregon farms are listed as sole proprietorships, the simplest and cheapest form of business organization. But it means the farm is tied to an individual, which can complicate succession, McAdams said.
The statistic "suggests that the vast majority of Oregon farmers may not have created thorough plans to smoothly transfer their businesses and assets to the next generation," the report said.
The authors concluded that land-sharing models, farm conservation easements, working lands easements, and other creative leasing arrangements may lead to better outcomes both for retiring farmers and those looking for a foothold in the profession. Other programs could connect beginning farmers with experienced ones, allowing them to explore innovative land access arrangements, the researchers said. Nonprofit farm incubators also offer low-cost access to land, and enable beginning farmers to gain experience, they said.
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For the first time in several generations, thanks to falling oil prices, the state confronts a fiscal crisis, forcing deep cuts across state agencies and in public services. The health and well-being of the state and its people, Murkowski emphasizes, hinges on its ability to access new reserves and open more acreage to exploration. Here in Colorado, and indeed throughout the reformed U.S. West and Midwest -- from Texas to North Dakota and From Nebraska to Nevada -- lawmakers similarly fret the decline in oil prices. Even consumers, in fact, are told to lament the drop in oil prices. Communities are revitalizing thanks to newfound revenues, and rural families benefit first from a new economic lifeline in the form of shale oil and natural gas (balanced, though largely contradictory evaluations are available here and here, however). Not only in Alaska, but throughout the Arctic and rural West, we are now dependent on energy and thus a threat to it is a threat to our livelihoods.
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Murkowski, and her counterparts in industry and government throughout Arctic and western regions, meanwhile, continue to overlook opportunities -- whether in green energies or in a technology-aided service economy -- to diversify state and regional economies, and provide more sustainable well-being for residents.
Murkowski's "pro-Alaskan people" rhetoric is in fact misleading, and on some level disingenuous. Falling oil prices is only the latest signal, separate of a drastically changing climate, that should spur civic leaders to lay the foundation for a more sustainable, if less frenzied, economic base. This would be an economy that that leaks less revenue to outside ventures in Houston or overseas, concentrates wealth less in only a few companies, while instead provides opportunity for entrepreneurship and broadly-based economic diversity. This will require public investment in schools, broadband and public health, rather than new asphalt for transiting drilling rigs, or in risky drilling in dangerous waters. "Man camps" do not a sustainable economy make.
Oil prices will rebound -- as extant infrastructure, new technology and global demand combine with crises in Iraq and Russia to push prices back up. Oil prices, like all natural resources, are of course volatile. I am not predicting a post-oil world, nor that Alaska can reinvent itself overnight. But lawmakers and civic leaders should be more honest with their constituents -- short term revenues, little of which has benefited health and well-being for local people in fact (see links above), have come at a long-term cost. The answer is not more shortisightedness, but sensible investments in public goods throughout a state and its frontiers, and an energy portfolio that ranges far and wide, decreasing dependency on volatile natural resource prices and diminishing the impact on rural communities and Arctic regions from economic shocks. This is an old story, but one that Murkowski has apparently never read, or, I fear, refuses to.
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We're making two stops today, so it's double the fun! Or something. First up is Sweden, home of Abba, followed by Germany, home of Nena. That's right, it's 'Dancing Queen' vs '99 Luftballons.' But it's not. Sorry for getting you all excited there. To make it up to you, let me introduce you to the male artist, female artist and group who will be introducing our two countries of the moment.
Male Artist - The Tallest Man On Earth
Aka Kristian Matsson, who's been getting a lot of good coverage lately for his progressive folky tunes. He released his second album, The Wild Hunt, earlier in the year to positive reviews and there's plenty more to come. There definitely would be if he ended up playing at the world's biggest imaginary music competition and I'm sure Sweden would be proud to have him representing them.
Female Artist - Robyn
Was there ever any doubt? She's arguably the coolest pop star in the world who just isn't popular enough. MTV had the perfect opportunity to introduce her to a wider audience at the VMAs and blew it by having her play during an Ad break. Seriously? You give Justin Bieber air-time and not one of the most critically acclaimed (AND COOLEST) acts of the year. Seriously? Ms Carlsson can find solace in the fact that she'll be performing to her largest audience ever, even if this whole competition is only in my mind.
Group - The Sounds
Yes, I could have gone with Royksopp or The Knife. But I didn't. For one, The Knife probably wouldn't even do it, and two, The Sounds should be huge, but it seems like they get less attention every time they release something new. At least David Letterman's a fan.
Group - Rammstein
I think it's good to showcase talent from a wide array of musical genres. Germany can have metal. And there's just something about Rammstein playing 'Du Hast' to a billion people that tickles me.
Female Artist - Lena
As the 2010 Eurovision winner, Lena already has experience winning music competitions that pit countries against each other. She's not bad and her song 'Satellite' is awfully catchy.
Male Artist - Alexander Klaws
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Germany fans, you must forgive me. But, I suggest you help me out... who would be better than these guys to rep Germany? Any assistance would be greatly appreciated. That's another two countries down. We've covered Australia, New Zealand, Canada, Sweden and Germany now. Where should we head to next? OH! And posted below is a special treat for reading through to the end.
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Well, I'm in lots of pain, but my tonsils and adenoids are gone. Brandon and my mom were there for me this morning. I'm glad, too. I was nervous and their support helped me get through the event.
The pain is excruciating at times; I'm trying to do things that keep my mind from it. I'm on a lot of pain medication and antibiotics. I have two weeks off of work ahead of me and it seems as though I'm already quite capable for getting around the house on this medication. I'm looking forward to spending time on some personal things:
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- I may implement an Apache 2 WebDAV server on my Gentoo Linux box to enable a distributed calendar application for Brandon and I to share.
I want to do something special for my mom and Brandon both for being there for me. I'll have to think more about that.
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The White Snake, Mary Zimmerman's seventh show here at Berkeley Rep, begins this Friday. (Hint: good low-priced preview seats are available on Friday and Tuesday. Click here to check it out.)
To celebrate, Scenic Charge Artist Lisa Lazar shares a fun tip about prepping some scenery for the show. Take it away, Lisa!
I have been tending to the scenery for our upcoming production of The White Snake. This show is a co-production with the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, and we're using their scenery, costumes, and props.
Audiences are just loving David Henry Hwang's Chinglish, but they're almost buzzing as much about the set. And with good reason! The set changes feature two turntables, automated armchairs, moving walls, flying screens and curtains, even actors crossing the stage as the set moves -- all to the energetic beats of c-pop.
Check out the scene changes in this video! It was shot with three cameras, including a handheld one backstage and one mounted on our catwalk for the overhead shots. Of course, some of this wasn't filmed during a performance – otherwise all the backstage shots would be totally dark.
Chinglish (The Set Changes) from Berkeley Repertory Theatre on Vimeo.
While Chinglish's set looks fully automated, what really happens literally behind the scenes is a complex dance between computers, stagehands, scene pieces, wardrobe, and even the actors.
David Henry Hwang's Chinglish, a comedy of cross-cultural errors, begins Friday. Here's a sneak peek of the set, which was trucked in from New York a few months ago and has been awaiting new life in our scene shop.
Production manager Tom Pearl takes a closer look.
And here's a view of it in the Roda Theatre last week.
A couple of bins of props in the Roda lobby, awaiting load-in.
All photos by Mary Kay Hickox.
By Lisa Lazar, charge scenic artist
Greetings from the Berkeley Rep Scenic Art studio!
Today we answer the question: How might one paint a graffiti-covered corrugated roll-up door for Emotional Creature? How might one paint this on a non-corrugated floor?
The image is drawn on a huge sheet of paper and then transferred to the flooring material. Drawing on the paper allows the artists to work out the drawing without damaging the actual scenery.
Once the image is transferred, the artists start painting. All the colors are custom-mixed to match the designer's specifications. In the above photo, Scenic Art Fellow Anya Kazimierski is painting with a color she mixed to match the designer's scale rendering. You can see a blue crescent on a white board at the top of the photograph. That is what the artists are working to replicate.
Once the graffiti portion of the painting is completed, the next step is to add the illusion of corrugation. Here, Anya is marking the lines that will become the next layer of this painting.
All of the lines are airbrushed on with a spray gun made for painting automobiles. The spray gun gives a smooth, photographic quality to the painting, but because there is the risk of unwanted "over-spray," this technique requires extensive masking.
And here you have it! One custom-shaped handpainted graffiti-coved roll-up door…on the floor.
Whenever she's working on a set for a Berkeley Rep show, Scenic Charge Artist Lisa Lazar emails awesome photos with commentary to the entire staff. Here's her step-by-step of the set for Dael Orlandersmith's Black n Blue Boys / Broken Men, which begins performances on May 25.
Red previews have only just begun, and already people are buzzing about the paintings onstage. What will happen to those canvases? What will happen to the fabric the actors are stretching and priming?
The canvases are the handiwork of the scenic art shop. Preview audience members have suggested that we auction off the canvases (signed by the actors) at the end of the run, which would be really fun. But -- bummer -- we're required by contract to destroy the Rothko-like work after the show closes.
David Chandler (right) as Rothko, along with John Brummer. Photo by kevinberne.com
But the fabric is another story. The prop shop preps a week's worth every Monday, and by the end of the run -- 53 performances -- we'll have used 190 yards of 144-inch fabric. But don't worry, it's not ending up in a landfill. We'll be donating it to local artists. And leftover paint will go to the Museum of Children's Art in Oakland.
Want to get involved and donate art supplies to local artists and teachers? Bring those items to the show! We have a bin in the lobby all set up for the East Bay Depot for Creative Reuse.
You can read more about how the scenic art and prop shops tackled the challenge of creating Rothko-like canvases in our Red program -- and we'll be giving you more behind-the-scenes peeks in future posts.
Berkeley Rep's shops are filled with pretty awesome, talented artisans who are always curious and ready to learn new things (and build some awesome things too). That tradition continued last Friday when the costume shop hosted an in-house fabric origami workshop taught by the amazing artist Chris Palmer, author of Shadowfolds. He taught members of the costume, prop, and scenic shops his method of folding fabric to make three-dimensional geometric designs.
Kitty Muntzel, the costume shop's draper, instigated this post -- and pointed me to a terrific blog post by our Scenic Charge Artist Lisa Lazar, who allowed me to repost it (with some slight changes) here.
I could a tale unfold...
On Friday I had the great fortune to participate in a workshop with artist Chris Palmer.
By Lisa Lazar, charge scenic artist
Bill Cain's How to Write a New Book for the Bible, directed by Kent Nicholson, begins performances on Friday. Get a glimpse behind-the-scenes and see how some of the set elements came together for this new play.
The scene shop is in the middle of building How to Write a New Book for the Bible. We are delighted to work on any show designed by the Scott Bradley.
Carpenter Colin Babcock stands in front of one of the windows he built. This particular window will eventually feature faux stained glass.
By Colin Babcock
As master carpenter of Berkeley Rep, I am constantly confronted with new challenges and get to work with new materials and techniques. It's my favorite part about my job. Recently I built the rolling fire escape and stoop unit you saw on stage in Rita Moreno: Life Without Makeup. The stoop unit was tricky. It had to be wheeled out and placed on its spike mark and stay there as Rita Moreno recounted her early years in New York. To accomplish my given task, I drew upon past Berkeley Rep experience, with some help from my wife Stephanie Shipman, who built two rolling desks for The People's Temple back when she was the scene-shop intern during the 2004/05 season. I was able to base the engineering of my stoop on what she did with the desks, but augmented her design with some techniques I recently employed on an outside project. I devised a lever-and-pulley system in the stoop that engages the wheels in much the same way that I made the rudder turn with the front wheels of the 25-foot-long submarine my friends and I made from scratch this summer.
The task was to build a replica of Captain Nemo's Nautilus from 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea that could be driven around the playa at the recent Burning Man Festival in Nevada. About 40 of us worked long nights and weekends all summer long at the Five Ton Crane Headquarters in West Oakland to accomplish our goal.
Attaching skeleton to the vehicle
So just how did they build the set for The Last Cargo Cult? How does it stay together? Where do the boxes go while Steve Jobs is being performed? Who owns the contents of the "iPig" box?
Excellent questions, my friends.
Being unsure myself, I felt it was time to do some set-inspired sleuthing. I began my inspection by performing some very scientific data-gathering methods such as "sneaking into the theatre" and "gently poking the boxes to see what would happen."
(I think it is important to note at this point that this research is confidential, so please don't disclose my methods to Mike Daisey or Jean-Michele Gregory...or stage management...or anyone for that matter.)
Not much knowledge was gleaned from this first attempt other than the fact that sneaking into a theatre and gently poking cardboard boxes makes one feel like a bit of an idiot, so I decided to dig deeper. I had heard a whisper of a rumor that although I had previously enjoyed imagining that the Cargo Cult boxes spent their week off sight-seeing, carousing, and generally making merry, that the boxes were actually kept inside the now somewhat-abandoned prop shop at Addison Street. I accosted a hapless facilities crew member and convinced them to let me into the prop shop which, I might add, was ominously locked.
On the breathless verge of discovery, I slowly opened the heavy, creaking door. After a tense moment fumbling to find the light switch -- behold! Six mounds of corrugated consumerism materialized before my eyes along with the truth I was so desperately seeking. Why hadn't I seen it before? But of course: Box Tetris!
Let me explain. Each individual box is part of one of six larger units of boxes fastened together with hot glue. These "playing pieces" are stacked on large crates to add height and fitted together in a Tetris-like fashion to create the illusion of the mountain of materialism looming over Mike Daisey.
Case closed.
Now if I could only figure out who owns the iPig and why...
Photo of Mike Daisey in The Last Cargo Cult by kevinberne.com.


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Wow! The SA blackout, a standoff plebiscite, Turnbull poll dive, MH 17 verdict, floods everywhere, Tangles (loved him) and Shimon Peres die, a corrupt FBI, Donald and crooked Hillary go at it... news galore, but I found the most compelling item was the unprecedented overturning of Barack Obama's veto by both the House and the Senate.
Hosni Mubarek was booted out of office with the support of the Obama Administration. Obama financially and personally helped one of the world's oldest terrorist organisations, The Muslim Brotherhood, into power with the hopeless Mohamed Morsi as President. Many members of the now banned Muslim Brotherhood still hold positions in Obama's Administration.
It doesn't really matter who won because very few voters will change allegiance, but the Left media was in form when mediator Lester Holt did not ask either contender one question about emails, Benghazi, Saudi Arabia or the Clinton Foundation. Therefore Trump was confined almost exclusively to defending himself.
I know you are the Prime Minster so I think you can help me. My teacher says that I can be a boy if I want to, but I and my girlfriends are happy being girls. The trouble is that all the boys in sixth grade want to be girls during play lunch so they can get to use our toilets. Then after play lunch, they want to be boys again so they can talk all about us girls. It's really embarrassing, Mr Turnbull.
Never before in recorded history have so many people migrated into another country without first securing a military victory. I'm not talking about the normal movement of a few traders or diplomats, or the occasional adventurous soul wanting to try something different. Since WW2, mass immigration from the third world has transformed Western nations, and not always in a way that the majority is comfortable with.
The media has taken a sharp turn further to the Left now that the Don is looking a chance, and if the FBI had not been thoroughly corrupted by this Administration Hillary would be behind bars. Destroying subpoenaed material is a serious criminal offence that has been inexplicably ignored by current FBI Director, James Comey, despite the fact he admitted the offence had occurred.
I have envied so many genuine partnerships where marriage was never given a second thought. That is until something triggered a sudden urge to be hitched, it may have been parental or even peer pressure, but married they got... and only then did their troubles start.
Reddit Posts By Hillary's IT guy proves she ordered emails to be stripped! Twitter users have discovered a startling revelation after the user name of Hillary Clinton's IT specialist, Paul Combetta was traced. The computer specialist was given immunity by the U.S. Department of Justice (DoJ) when news broke that he had deleted Clinton's emails from her private server.
The lunatic Left springs to Islam's defence with excuses like, "that bomber must have been a radicalised lone wolf". "Radicalised" means someone else must have corrupted the poor little bearded bastard. "Lone wolf" means the heinous act he committed is an isolated one and has no relationship to Islam in general. Bloody hell! Please tell me they're all kidding.
New York city Mayor, Democrat and dickhead, Bill de Blasio has decided that Manhattan's West 23rd Street bomb has no obvious connection to terrorism and that it was apparently "intentional". "Here is what we know", he said: "It was intentional, it was a violent act, it was certainly a criminal act, it was a bombing — that's what we know." Crumbs, he has a mind like a steel trap!
Even the loyal "Friends of the ABC" would admit to the outrageous Left bias displayed by the public broadcaster... perhaps not, but they would have to admit to the fact that changes must be made, as they are about to be made to the BBC, now that the Brits have decided to leave the EU.
I made an incredible discovery when I was in kindy, I figured out a whole new way to argue. It was awesome. All you had to do was to stick fingers in ears and keep yelling "I CAN'T HEAR YOU" over and over. It worked like a charm, I never lost an argument – until I tried it on dad.
The rolling eyes of the Left and the Greens' juvenile walkout won't change the fact that a discussion must be held on Islam, not Muslims, Islam, and Pauline clearly made the distinction. But, as she explained, Australian Muslims must be involved to a greater extent than they have been. Parliamentarians as a whole have no concept of Islam... they have decided Islam is an untouchable religion.
As sure as "The Bulletin" died a sudden death with Kerry Packer so too will die "The Australian" with the death of Rupert Murdoch. They may be on borrowed time but journalists should never reveal their sources or confidences. They should rightly go to jail rather than do so. So when a former editor of a national daily broadsheet like "The Australian" spills his guts to eager TV hosts he is playing the last post for the Press.


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Hat-trick hero Romeo Castelen reckons Adelaide Oval's slick surface might help Western Sydney's quest for A-League title glory, in a grand final shaping as the Dutchman's last chance to press his case for a contract extension.
Castelen was the star of the Wanderers' 5-4 semi-final triumph over Brisbane, scoring a thunderous free-kick to start a phenomenal fightback from 3-0 down before adding another two.
The 32-year-old winger described it as "really the best game I've ever played".
"I've never been in a game like that before," he said.
"You can check my records - I've played big games against Dortmund (which was) amazing. We (Hamburg) won 3-0.
"But this was a special game, a game that can bring you to the one-off final ... my first hat-trick as well.
"Our dream is still alive, now we put this behind us and move on because it's not finished yet."
The Wanderers have seven days to recover before Sunday's tough attempt to knock Adelaide United off their Premiers Plate perch and claim the championship that's eluded them in two grand final appearances spanning the last three years.
They'll do so at Adelaide Oval, the venue with a reputation as one of the hardest and fastest pitches in Australia.
While the squad's unfamiliarity with the surface could hand the Reds the edge, Castelen believed it would suit Western Sydney's fluid game.
"If you watch our football, we will be happy with that," he said.
"We always play possession-based football, keeping the ball and moving the ball quickly."
A speedy contest will match well with Castelen's formidable pace, and present him with another opportunity to show coach Tony Popovic why he should be re-signed for next season.
The former Feyenoord forward is coming off-contract and his presence at Parramatta beyond his second season remains uncertain.
For much of this campaign the injury-prone star has struggled to finish chances, though he has enjoyed a recent mini-spree in the lead-up to Sunday's semi-final heroics.
Popovic branded Castelen's performance against Brisbane "outstanding", and praised him for stepping up over the last few weeks.
But his player was still none the wiser about his future.
"At the moment I really don't know," Castelen said.
"I just want to focus on my football - it's finals.
"What happens after we will see, but the people know how I play.
"I always play for the fans and carry myself with pride for this club.
"We have a big game ahead, and after that the talks are always open."


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Still haven't watched Amazing Spider-Man, nor sure I will anytime soon. Reboot, too soon. Hell, still haven't watched Daredevil, Elektra, either FF movie, the Wolverine standalone, Green Lantern, either Ghost Rider... Prolly less I've seen than those I have.
Prometheus is equally one of the best of the past decade, just rewatched it again. The whole Jesus Christ was an alien, who we killed and earned annihilation because of our crime? Damn. Just damn. The Christmas sprinkles in the story, the faith/atheist dynamic. Such a beautiful and intricately desigined plot. In this vein, I've gotten back on an Event Horizon kick. Watched it several times this year again. Awesome movie. Just awesome. No creepy aliens, just sheer terror. Humans driven to kill themselves. Weir is a complex character, and not utterly unbelievable or bad. Just a man, flawed, but a man. Wormhole leading to Hell dimension, complete chaos? Such an amazing movie, one probably enhanced by the fact it was the very first movie my parents let me see by myself in the theatres (No G-rated crap first. Event Horizon was the absolute first time I sat alone in a theater, at the age of 12. Good parenting FTW!)
#1 with a bullet? Riddick. About damn time. That franchise is epic. Most thought the sequel tried too hard, did too much, compared with the minimalist Pitch Black. And true enough, extremely bipolar franchise. I'm reluctant only because Riddick sounds like a return to Pitch Black instead of a followup to Chronicles. Say what you will about Chronicles, I still am blown away by the premise there. Everything. But that religion? I mean come on - the Necromancers were genius. In our universe, where life has one constant - death. Thus life is the aberration, and death the natural state of things in this world? It's mind blowing because you could totally see some nutjob cult coming to that conclusion on their own, and the sci-fi and mysticism dynamic of the film worked perfectly with a revolutionary concept. Hopefully that doesn't get dropped entirely from Riddick.
Yeah, the spoiler is 100% there. Absolutely, without question. I picked it up my first time through by the end. Rewatch it. It's spread throughout, but the 'A-HA!' moment for me? The timeline. Engineers create life on Earth, return with representatives over time. The alien ship headed to wipe out the Earth because we killed their last representative, proving we're evil/bad and deserving? Yeah, 2,000 years ago. What famous death of a descendant of the maker(s) of life on Earth with impossible powers do we know that happened around the first century? If you watch it again and look for it, you'll have no problem 'getting' it. I just don't see any other possibility, particularly with the constant references to Christmas amongst the crew during the movie.
Well, that certainly all makes sense... but somehow I never picked up on it the first time. Hell, I'm still confused as to why the original engineer in the first shot of the movie just withers up and dies.
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I haven't seen Prometheus, but there is one issue I've read about that bothers me. Why does Charlize Theron's surgical unit thingie not work on women? That is moronic, especially when considering that a woman owns and installed it.
I heard that mitlen knows what he wants which is to eat bacon while he watches blue911 junk-punch Nathan by a green-screen so it looks like they're on top of Mount Everest.
Saw Silver Linings Playbook. I'm guessing your life experiences will shape how you view that movie.
i still love prometheus to this day.
i had HUGE expectations for prometheus and was let down.
Man, I cannot fathom this. Not at all. It was amazing in a million different ways, it tried to do some incredible things and succeeded, while avoiding doing exactly what everyone expected (Alien v0.0)If you went in expecting the Alien prequel/Ripley lovefest, I can perhaps, perhaps, understand. But even if you did, I can't imagine not walking away in awe of what they pulled off. The movie has layers on top of layers, easily going to be one of the best films of this decade.
You are the only people I know of who liked Prometheus, especially as anything more than a mindless entertainment sci-fi flick. Perhaps I should watch it...
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The following is an unedited transcript of an interview between police Sgt. Linus Larrabee and police Detective Charlie Allnut, with the prophet Muhammad, regarding a July 23 incident in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Audiotapes and a transcript of the interview were released today.
Muhammad was arrested in a bathroom by Larrabee, who was working undercover.
Larrabee said Muhammad exhibited behavior in the men's restroom that was "often used by persons communicating a desire to engage in sexual conduct."
Muhammad later pleaded guilty to a charge of disorderly conduct.
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MUHAMMAD: Call me Moe.
OFFICER: I think I'll stick with "Mr. Muhammad."
MUHAMMAD: Suit yourself.
OFFICER: I'm just going to read you your rights real quick, okay? You got it?
MUHAMMAD: Yeah, sure.
OFFICER: You have the right to remain silent, just like you prefer your women. Anything you say can and will be used against you in a court of law, then later distributed on the internet for all to see. You have the right to talk to a lawyer now or have a lawyer present anytime during questioning. If you cannot afford a lawyer, the worst one we can find will be appointed to you without cost. Do you understand each of these rights the way I have explained them to you?
MUHAMMAD: What was that part about a lawyer?
OFFICER: You have the right to have one. Do you want one?
MUHAMMAD: Can I think about it?
OFFICER: No, thinking is not one of your rights.
MUHAMMAD: I guess I'll pass then. I'm not going to jail am I? I mean, it was you that solicited me.
OFFICER: So you wish to talk to us at this time?
MUHAMMAD: Yes, as long as I can get out of here before Dancing With The Stars, begins.
OFFICER: You don't have a DVR?
MUHAMMAD: I broke it over my youngest wife's head for showing her eyelids in public.
OFFICER: How about we just start off with your side of the story.
MUHAMMAD: Okay, um, I sat down, um, to go to the bathroom and ah, I had chicken shawarma that I'm sure was out of date. As a matter of fact I was planning on going back to the food cart I bought it from and relieving myself on the condiment table, but I couldn't make it. Um, that's when I stumbled into the bathroom we met at. You said our feet bumped. I believe that's correct ah, I have big feet and also suffer from Restless Leg Syndrome, it's considered a disorder. Sometimes my feet just start hopping around by themselves, which is wonderful on the dance floor or for curb stomping infidels, but gets me into trouble in public restrooms. So I guess it's possible we touched, but it was entirely innocent and um, the next think I knew, under the bathroom divider comes a card that says Police. Now, um, (sigh) that's about as far as I can take it. I don't know of anything else. Ah, maybe your foot came toward mine, or mine came towards yours, was that natural? I don't know. Did we bump? Yes. I think we did. You said so. I don't disagree with that.
OFFICER: (sound of unfolding paper) And what about this sketch of a bearded man performing oral sex on another man, you slid into my stall?
MUHAMMAD: Oh, uh, that was sitting on the toilet paper roll when I entered the stall. I was so disgusted by the image, because I'm not gay or anything, that I brushed it away, so it must have floated over to your side.
OFFICER: And what about here, where it says, "Ever been blown by a Prophet?"
MUHAMMAD: Yeah, that does seem like a funny coincidence. Hey, you know what? As I was entering the bathroom a man was on his way out, and I remember saying too myself, "Boy that guy sure looks like Joseph Smith. Maybe, when I'm done I could try to get an autograph."
OFFICER: Really?
MUHAMMAD: Sure, I hear he has a real thing for sticking cock in his ass, if you know what I mean?
OFFICER: Yeah, I'm pretty sure I know what you mean by that.
MUHAMMAD: Okay, great. Now that we've solved that mystery, am I free to go?
OFFICER: Don't be stupid. Your skipping some parts here, what about your hand?
MUHAMMAD: What about it? I saw your card on the ground, I reached down like this, and picked it up. That's all I remember.
OFFICER: You know, Mr. Muhammad, I'm a little disappointed in you right now. I'm not like the other officers who want to make a scene about situations like this. I try to treat everybody with dignity, and not embarrass them. But, right now you are clearly lying to me. What was in your hand?
MUHAMMAD: My hand?
OFFICER: Okay, we'll start over. All your going to have to do is pay a fine and you can go back to not reading or writing. But fist, you need to be honest with me here, Moe.
MUHAMMAD: Don't call me Moe, its insulting.
OFFICER: You told me to call you...never mind. Tell me Mr. Muhammad, what was in your hand.
MUHAMMAD: What did it look like to you?
OFFICER: It looked like your penis, Mr. Muhammad.
MUHAMMAD: On a scale of one to ten, how would you rate the appearance of that penis?
OFFICER: We're not here for that Mr. Muhammad. And I'd say it was a five and a half, at best.
MUHAMMAD: Five and a half! That's even more insulting. You've obviously not see many. I assure you it is considered very impressive among the ladies.
OFFICER: So your admitting your penis was in your hand?
MUHAMMAD: I'm admitting it's more than five and a half inches long, nothing else. Wait a minute, if I was sitting on the toilet in my stall, and you were in your stall, how did you see my penis in my hand?
OFFICER: Before you arrived we installed a mirror above your stall so that I could clearly see what you were up too. So let me try this one more time. What was in your hand Mr. Muhammad?
MUHAMMAD: Oh, Christ, that's disgusting. What if I just came in there to shit? Were you sitting in a public bathroom all day long, watching guy's shit with the hope that one of them would try and suck your dick?
OFFICER: I guess you could put it that way.
MUHAMMAD: Is there any other way to put it?
OFFICER: Not really.
MUHAMMAD: So why am I the bad guy? I just wanted to touch a ball, but you acted like a sex pervert. How much do they pay you to do something like that?
OFFICER: One hundred and fifty six thousand, plus a company car.
MUHAMMAD: Oh, well actually that's not such a bad salary.
OFFICER: The pension is really great as well, but enough about that Mr. Muhammad.
MUHAMMAD: Call me Moe.
OFFICER: What! Enough of this Mr. Muhammad, just answer my questions and stop playing games.
MUHAMMAD: Dick
OFFICER: What did you just call me. (silence) Okay. You travel through here frequently, correct?
MUHAMMAD: I do.
OFFICER: Have you been successful at this before?
MUHAMMAD: I'm always successful at going to the bathroom. Well, maybe not always.
OFFICER: I mean at other types of illegal activities in bathrooms. Have you been successful at them?
MUHAMMAD: No. Absolutely not. I don't see any activity in bathrooms.
OFFICER: I know you want to fight me on this. But you have to accept the situation you are in. I'm trained in this and I know what I am doing. And I say you drew that picture, you wrote the words on it, you had your penis in your hand, and you wanted to pick me up.
MUHAMMAD: I, I, I admit I may have inadvertently gotten myself aroused thinking about Robin Thicke's mustache. But if you saw my hand on my penis it's only because I was trying to push it down. Back into place. You know.
OFFICER: No, Mr. Muhammad. I'm afraid I don't know. I just, I just. I guess, I'm gonna say I'm just disappointed in you sir. I just really am. I expect this from the Catholics, but you. I mean people worship for you.
MUHAMMAD: Yes, yes they do. And you would be smart to remember what kind of people worship me. I don't want to say that I could have you killed with a simple wave of my hand, but I could have you killed with a single wave of my hand.
OFFICER: I thought you didn't want to say that.
MUHAMMAD: I lied. Now, if you don't let me out of this office and forget about this whole experience, in the next two minutes, my homies are going to kick down that door and go Charlie Hebdo on your ass.
OFFICER: (silence) Um. (silence) Ah. (silence) I think that maybe...maybe...Yes, now I remember. That was not you at all. Now that I think about it, Joseph Smith was in the stall next to me, not you.
MUHAMMAD: Thank you. But I still may have you killed for saying I have a small wiener.
OFFICER: I think maybe we have all we need here. Your free to go Mr. Muhammad.
MUHAMMAD: Call me Moe.
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The workplace comedy L.A. Beer is set in a California microbrewery and follows a group of beer lovers and brewers as they compete in a growing industry, reports the entertainment news site.
The upcoming web series was funded through Kickstarter, which allowed creators to produce the sitcom for "1/200th of what the comparable cost for a network sitcom would be," according to executive producer Sam Miller, who is also a staff writer for the CBS comedy Mom. The producer was looking to create a primetime-quality web series, but will also make history with the project.
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"U.S. soccer team hears Osama chants in Mexico
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Feb. 6, 2004 12:30 PM
ZAPOPAN, Mexico - The Mexican crowd hooted "The Star-Spangled Banner." It booed U.S. goals. It chanted "Osama! Osama! Osama!" as U.S. players left the field with a 2-0 victory.
And that was in a game against Canada on Thursday before just 1,500 people.
A game Tuesday in neighboring Guadalajara will determine whether the U.S. under-23 soccer team heads to the Athens Games.
"This is what it is all about," coach Glenn Myernick said. "You are 90 minutes away from being in the Olympics."
The U.S. team faces Honduras on Saturday in its last first-round game, which will determine if the Americans play Costa Rica or Mexico in the deciding game on Tuesday. While the Americans will surely face a hostile crowd against Costa Rica, a matchup with Mexico would mean a game in front of more than 50,000 hometown fans seeking revenge.
The United States knocked Mexico out of the World Cup in 2002, and Mexican fans will be looking for some retribution if the teams meet in the semifinals."
Thanks to Jack Kimball at http://pantaloons.blogspot.com/ for his generous and perceptive comments. I am especially interested in what Jack identifies as "Boston or New England sobriety, a lack of irony in Xtina's use of 'loss,'" (xtina.org) and "unironic word-play" in my "New England Projectivism".
I think there's something to what Jack sees and hears. (His praise of Xtina's poetry and presence is especially on the mark.) What do others think of "New England" as adjective and the absence of irony {sincerity ...in a Poundian sense?} w/r/t Xtina's work? the work of others in Sunday Morning at the Grand? I think Jack has hit upon something interesting here.
Chris Rizzo (inplaceofchairs.blogspot.com) has often spoken of "serious play".
On the evening of Tim's party Joel Sloman, Brenda Iijima, and I spoke about sincerity and irony in art (among many other things).
Some months ago I had an argument w/ a poet about humor. I argued that humor is never amoral nor apolitical. Further, it is possible that some people simply cannot laugh at an immoral joke--a joke that takes shots at the powerless, say. Mitch made an argument to which I am sympathetic (tho' I did not change my mind): transgression is the key element in humor. Transgression is amoral. (A transgression could help the powerless; a transgression could harm the powerless).
Driving me home one day, Gerrit Lansing sd that Ginsberg was a (might I say "strong" in a Bloomian sense?) moral poet. His work certainly concerns itself w/ right conduct, no?
Ginsberg, though, was not a New Englander.
Olson was.
What is inside "New England" as an adjective?
The Puritans are inside. Are the waves of Catholic immigrants of the late 19th and early 20th centuries in there? Are "swamp Yankees" from the "sleepy west, of the woody east" & from Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, {even [& I cld site examples] from northern New York} inside the adjective "New England"? Cold must be in there, as must muck of late winter and early spring. Is provincialism (see: The Late George Appley) inside the adjective? Is pride-of-place? What's in there?
I'm guessing we don't all read "New England" the same way.
What say you?
Thanks Jack. I agree w/ Maria Damon, who wrote on the poetics list that she wishes there were more reviews of readings in e-print. I hope to do more myself.
Monday, February 09, 2004
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By John Kemp
Research and analysis into commodity prices and derivatives almost always relies on the commitments of traders (COT) report published by the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC).
Except for some correlation studies published by the European Central Bank and International Monetary Fund, every major report on the formation of commodity prices, supply/demand, the role of index funds, and the possible "financialisation" of the asset class, published in the last five years, has relied on data taken from the COT report.
Most big investment banks in commodities, as well as smaller brokers and dealers, publish an analysis of the weekly COT data for their clients, and COT numbers appear somewhere in the tables and charts included in regular reports.
But how much does the commitments of traders report really reveal about activity in commodity derivatives markets?
The report is less insightful than many regular users realise. But in a classic example of availability bias the data is (mis)used as a proxy for speculation and hedging, and over-interpreted to track the correlation between prices and positions, simply because it is the only information researchers have.
The COT report provides almost the only information on the type of traders and size of their positions in the otherwise secretive futures and options markets for energy products like crude and natural gas, metals such as copper, and agricultural items ranging from grains to livestock and coffee.
The report's origins can be traced back to 1924, when the U.S. Department of Agriculture began publishing an annual report on hedging and speculation in regulated futures markets. It has since appeared with increasing frequency, becoming monthly in 1962, bi-monthly in 1990, fortnightly in 1992 and weekly from 2000.
As trading on regulated exchanges has spread from grains and other agricultural products to oil and refined products, natural gas and power, precious and base metals, currencies, equity indices, bonds, and volatility, more and more commodities and other financial assets have come within the scope of the reporting system.
Until recently, no other regulator or exchange published data on traders and positions in comparable detail. By default, therefore, the COT report has become the cornerstone of research into how supply, demand and inventories, as well as speculation and hedging, affect cash and futures prices, for everything from retail gasoline to steak on restaurant menus and the cost of breakfast cereal.
The report's main limitations and problems stem from the way the CFTC classifies types of traders and aggregates information on their positions to preserve the anonymity of market participants.
Under the CFTC's large-trader reporting system (LTRS), all clearing members of exchanges, futures commission merchants and foreign brokers must file reports with the CFTC showing futures and options positions they hold on their own account and on behalf of each client above specific reporting levels set by the Commission.
Reports are filed daily, but the COT report is based on returns for positions held at the close on Tuesdays. Reported positions usually represent 70-90 percent of all live contracts (open interest) in any given market.
All traders with a position above the threshold must file a Form 40. It provides details about their enterprise, and identifies whether they are using futures and options to hedge business activities (which Form 40 defines as including "production, merchandising or processing of a cash commodity, asset/liability risk management, security portfolio risk management, etc").
Based on Form 40, and the judgment of CFTC staff, all traders with reportable positions are assigned to one of more than 20 detailed categories set out in Schedule 1 of Form 40 and in Appendix 1 of a CFTC report on "Fundamentals, Trader Activity and Derivative Pricing" published in December 2008.
The information in the daily reports enables the Commission to track the positions of individual traders or classes in real-time and considerable detail, identifying unusual trading patterns or the accumulation of positions (though as Amaranth illustrated, having the data is not the same as acting on it in an effective and timely manner).
By law, the CFTC is required to preserve the confidentiality of individual traders, so most of the detail in the LTRS is suppressed in the published COT reports.
Until 2009, the CFTC aggregated large traders into just two categories: commercial traders (assumed to be hedging) and non-commercial traders (who were not). The remaining (small) positions were allocated to a "non-reportable" category.
Unfortunately, as Form 40 makes clear, "hedging" covers a wide range of activities. The "commercial" category therefore contained firms that were hedging in the popularly accepted sense (producers, consumers, merchants hedging operational inventories) as well as businesses managing financial risks (such as index operators hedging commodity-price related transactions they had done with pension funds).
In 2008, following the commodity price spike, the CFTC decided to improve the report by offering more detailed categories. Swap dealers, which use futures and options to "hedge" their financial rather than physical exposure to changing commodity prices, for example as a result of offering commodity index products, were removed from the commercial category.
The CFTC began publishing a disaggregated COT report which classified traders into four major groups: (1) producer/merchant/processor/user; (2) swap dealers; (3) managed money; and (4) other reportables. The remaining small positions are again classified as "non-reportable".
In theory, this should offer greater clarity. The producer/merchant/processor/user category corresponds more closely to the traditional idea of hedging physical transactions. Financial hedgers and dealers have been separated out into the swap dealer category. The old "non-commercial" speculators are reported in the remaining two categories of money managers and other reportables.
The data is still too aggregated to be useful. The major problem is that the CFTC classifies traders rather than positions.
Take a major oil company, which engages in operational hedging, offers "risk management services" to its clients, and runs a speculative trading book. All its positions will be allocated to just one of the four categories, depending on whether the CFTC decides it is primarily a producer, a swap dealer or some other type of trader. The result is that most categories contain a mixture of hedging and speculative positions.
The CFTC does not reveal how individual firms have been classified. For example, we don't know if BP, Shell, Exxon and Chesapeake are classified as producers, swap dealers or in some other category. In 2008, the CFTC had to retrospectively reclassify one large trader, changing all the reports going back more than a year, after it discovered they could no longer be described as hedging because they had disposed of their refinery.
As a result, research that attempts to separate out the effect of hedging versus speculation on prices, using either the old two-way commercial/non-commercial classification, or the new four-way one, is based on flawed data.
The second problem is the CFTC does not break down the age distribution of positions. In 2008, CFTC economists provided a rare glimpse of the maturity profile, based on the full confidential LTRS database. It showed swap dealers and money managers accounted for most contracts with one-three years left to maturity and almost all open interest beyond three years ().
But the data has been reported only for three points in the past and is not regularly updated. It is impossible to replicate the exercise because the full data set remains confidential and the CFTC will not release it to other researchers, even anonymised.
In its current form, the COT data provides an incomplete and often misleading picture of the distribution of positions in the futures and options markets. Unfortunately, most of the research which has been published based on it is worthless because it is based on over-broad classifications (the "garbage in, garbage out" principle).
How could the COT data be improved? The first step would be to publish a full list of how individual traders have been classified, with a more detailed explanation of classification policy. The second step would be to start breaking positions down by age distribution (perhaps in broad buckets like the 2008 report).
The most radical step would be to publish data on individual positions with an appropriate delay to ensure they are no longer commercially sensitive. Publication after three or five years of individual positions, or at least classifications, would not expose any commercial secrets. But it would allow researchers to get a much better understanding of how commodity prices have been formed in the past.
Some of these changes could be implemented by the Commission itself. Others might require legislation. But if the COT data is ever to yield the sort of useful conclusions that academics, commodity analysts and policymakers want, much more disclosure will be necessary. In the meantime, users should treat the COT data with care.
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You would think that liberals could try to get along with conservatives during the Christmas season in order to celebrate the birth of Jesus Christ, who was born to save humans of all political beliefs.
But of course there are some who refuse to set aside their political differences even during this sacred season and have instead turned it into another way to express their disdain for others.
In fact, one group of "racial justice" activists has rewritten popular Christmas carols to be about racism and have been singing them in the Boston area, according to The Daily Caller.
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"Oh, the Trump-ocalypse is frightful," one song began, to the tune of "Let It Snow." "All this violence more than spiteful/But when justice is dealt a blow/We'll say 'no,' we'll say 'no,' we'll say 'no!'"
The organization responsible for the carols, Showing Up For Racial Justice (SURJ), gathered on Dec. 10 in Boston to sing their carols and turn the Christmas season into yet another avenue for political statements.
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During the performance, the group handed out fliers to passersby with suggestions on how they, too, could get involved and use the season to oppose racial injustice by "caroling" and donating to certain organizations.
"Tis the season to disrupt racism!" the flier read, encouraging people to participate in "arts-based organizing, accessibility, housing justice, anti-racism education and more."
While these activists are certainly free to express their political positions any day or season of the year, they have manipulated songs that were intended to celebrate Jesus Christ into political statements.
For example, "Silent Whites" changed what was a beautiful tribute to Christ and the Virgin Mary into a slam on white people who haven't, in their eyes, done enough to combat racial injustice.
It goes:
Silent Whites.
So much fright.
Don't we/you know
Things ain't right?
Check y/our privilege,
Save y/our tears.
Join the fight
And face y/our fears.
We/You will never be free…
Till all Black people are free.
The group's other modified carols can be seen on a Google document that was made publicly visible.
Apparently it's the liberal movement's new mission to make Christmas about anything other than the birth of Christ, from their war on "Merry Christmas" to their manipulation of Christ-based songs into political statements.
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Toby Keith on the Late Show with Stephen Colbert
Published On September 11, 2015 | Country Music News, Daily Scoop
The singer performed and gave Colbert a special gift. Check it out!
Toby gave Colbert a signature guitar and performed his song, "Rum is the Reason". Stephen Colbert was the person charged with helping induct Toby into the Songwriter's Hall of Fame earlier this year!
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Colbert inducts Toby into the Songwriter's Hall of Fame by performing one of his biggest hits!